Unit 4

Question 1

The curious mix of perfect vision and face blindness illustrates the distinction between…

Answer 1

Sensation and perception

Question 2

The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment

Answer 2

Sensation

Question 3

The process of organizing and interpreting sensory info allowing us to recognize events and objects

Answer 3

Perception

Question 4

Analysis that begins with the sensory receptors and works up to the brains integration of sensory information

Answer 4

Bottom up processing

Question 5

Difference between bottom up and top down processing

Answer 5

Bottom up: developing experiences when experiencing something for the 1st time.
Top down: prior experiences using past to build sensations

Question 6

Simple definition of….

Energies or stimuli that are five major senses take in

Answer 6

Sensation

Question 7

Awareness of senses, simple definition

Answer 7

Perception

Question 8

Focus on stimuli with sensations

Answer 8

Selective attention

Question 9

Failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere

Answer 9

I attentional blindness

Question 10

Failing to notice changes in the environment

Answer 10

Change blindness

Question 11

The study of relationships between physicial characteristics of stimuli, like intensity and our psychological experience of them

Answer 11

Psychophysics

Question 12

Conversion of one form of energy to another, neural impulses

Answer 12

Transduction

Question 13

Minimum Point of detection, based on expectations alertness, and experiences. The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular similar 50% of the time

Answer 13

Absolute threshold

Question 14

Assumes there is no single absolute threshold and that detection varies from person to person.

Answer 14

Signal detection theory

Question 15

Below ones absolute threshold, take info in all the time

Answer 15

Subliminal

Question 16

Can link up one think with another to remember, activation of things—one perception, memory, or response

Answer 16

Priming

Question 17

Minimum amount of stimulus for something to alter before noting a change.

Answer 17

Difference threshold

Question 18

Principle that two stimuli differ by a constant percentage

Answer 18

Weber’s law

Question 19

More exposure to stimuli, less affect

Answer 19

Adapting

Question 20

To physical characteristics of light that help determine our sensory experience of them

Answer 20

Wavelength and intensity

Question 21

The distance from one wave peak to the next, determines its hue

Answer 21

Wavelength

Question 22

The color we experience

Answer 22

Hue

Question 23

The amount of energy in light waves, influences brightness

Answer 23

Intensity

Question 24

Cells that derive their name from their ability to respond to a scenes specific feature

Answer 24

Feature detector

Question 25

The processing of many aspects of a problem, the brains natural mode of information processing for many functions; contrasts step by step processing

Answer 25

Parallel processing

Question 26

Combined info of color, movement, form, and depth

Answer 26

Parallel processing

Question 27

Implies that the cones do their color magic in teams of three. The retina has three types of color receptors red green and blue.

Answer 27

Young helmnolz tri theory

Question 28

As visual information leaves the receptor cells, we analyze it in terms of three sets of opponent colors, red green, yellow blue, and white black

Answer 28

Opponent process theory

Question 29

Where does opponent processing occur

Answer 29

Retina and thalamus

Question 30

The sense or act of hearing something

Answer 30

Audition

Question 31

The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time

Answer 31

Frequency

Question 32

A toned highness or lowness, depends on frequency

Answer 32

Pitch

Question 33

The chamber between the eardrum she cochlea containing tiny bones that concentrate the vibrations of eardrum

Answer 33

Middle ear

Question 34

Coiled, bony, fluid filled tube in inner ear through sound waves trigger nerve impulses

Answer 34

Cochlea

Question 35

Innermost part of the ear, contains cochlea, vestibular sacs, and canals

Answer 35

Inner ear

Question 36

In hearing, the theory that links the pitch we hear with the place where the cochleae membrane is stimulated

Answer 36

Place theory

Question 37

In hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up auditory nerve matches frequency of a tone

Answer 37

Frequency theory

Question 38

Types of hearing loss

Answer 38

Conduction and sensorineural

Question 39

Hearing loss caused by damage to mechanical system that conducts sound waves to cochlea

Answer 39

Conduction

Question 40

Hearing loss caused by damage to cochleae receptor cells or auditory nerves

Answer 40

Sensorineural

Question 41

device for converting sounds into electrical signals stimulating auditory nerve into the cochlea

Answer 41

Cochlear implant

Question 42

Skin senses

Answer 42

Cold Heat Pressure Pain

Question 43

System for sensing position of body parts

Answer 43

Kinesthesis

Question 44

Sense of body movement, balance

Answer 44

Vestibular sense

Question 45

The theory that the spinal cord has a gate that blocks pain signals or allows them to get to brain

Answer 45

Gate control theory

Question 46

One sense many influence another

Answer 46

Sensory interaction

Question 47

Perceptual tenancy to organize stimuli into groups

Answer 47

Grouping, gestalt

Question 48

Ability to see objects in three dimensions, allows us to judge distance

Answer 48

Depth perception

Question 49

Depth cues, depend on using two eyes

Answer 49

Binoculars cues

Question 50

Binocular queue for perceiving depth

Answer 50

Retinal disparity

Question 51

Depth cues like interposition and linear perspective, available to either eye

Answer 51

Monocular cues

Question 52

When two adjacent lights blink on and off, we think it’s a single light moving back and forth

Answer 52

Phi phenomenon

Question 53

Perceiving familiar objects as having constant color

Answer 53

Color constancy

Question 54

Mental, perceive one thing and not the other

Answer 54

Perceptual set

Question 55

Ability to adjust to an artificial visual field

Answer 55

Perceptual adaption

Question 56

claim that perception can occur from sensory output

Answer 56

ESP

Question 57

What are the chemical sensations

Answer 57

Taste and smell

Question 58

How do we perceive motion

Answer 58

Parallel processing

Question 59

Telepathy

Answer 59

Mind to mind

Question 60

See events in future

Answer 60

Clairvoyance

Question 61

See remote events as they’re happening

Answer 61

Precognition